From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: x86: Syzkaller nested_run_pending defense
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:45:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260310224546.2582118-1-seanjc@google.com> (raw)
Defeat syzkaller once and for all when it comes to nested_run_pending (yeah,
those words won't come back to haunt me), by treating nested_run_pending as
"untrusted" for the purposes of WARNs if userspace gains control of the vCPU.
I.e. don't WARN if userspace _may_ have stuffed vCPU state to force an
impossible VM-Exit.
We've reached the point where the signal:noise ratio for nested_run_pending
WARNs when syzkaller is fuzzing nVMX/nSVM is awful, and playing whack-a-mole
with syzkaller is doing more harm that good at this point. While it's
possible syzkaller could find an actual KVM bug by stuffing vCPU state, if the
_only_ symptom is the nested_run_pending WARN, then in theory the bug should
also be hittable by stuffing L2 state prior to nested VM-Enter.
Sean Christopherson (1):
KVM: x86: Suppress WARNs on nested_run_pending after userspace exit
Yosry Ahmed (1):
KVM: x86: Move nested_run_pending to kvm_vcpu_arch
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 15 ++++++++++
arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 23 ++++++++-------
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 16 +++++------
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h | 4 ---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 50 +++++++++++++++++----------------
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 16 +++++------
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h | 3 --
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 7 +++++
arch/x86/kvm/x86.h | 10 +++++++
9 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)
base-commit: 5128b972fb2801ad9aca54d990a75611ab5283a9
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2.53.0.473.g4a7958ca14-goog
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-10 22:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-10 22:45 Sean Christopherson [this message]
2026-03-10 22:45 ` [PATCH 1/2] KVM: x86: Move nested_run_pending to kvm_vcpu_arch Sean Christopherson
2026-03-10 22:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: x86: Suppress WARNs on nested_run_pending after userspace exit Sean Christopherson
2026-03-11 1:53 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-03-11 13:27 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-03-11 18:23 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-03-12 14:22 ` Sean Christopherson
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